August 2021
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August 26, 2021 | 3:00 pm EDT Florida BRACE announced a webinar this week that you might find of interest. Presented by Jake Carstens, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University. Tropical cyclones frequently impact Florida, and recent hurricanes have included Irma (2017), Michael (2018), and Sally (2020).…
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My Windows queue is getting filled with links to a bunch of climate-related stories that I found to be of interest in the last couple of weeks. Most of them are related to recent extreme weather and climate events that have occurred around the US and the world. You might be interested in some of…
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This week a slow-moving front will increase the chances of rain this weekend, although they will be spotty. After the front moves through, we should be back to the regular routine of a chance of thunderstorms each afternoon, although chances will decrease later in the week. The East Coast will see the most rain, but…
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The latest tropical outlook for TS Henri indicates that it is now likely to hit Long Island, New York, with a chance of hitting the Big City itself. I lived there for two years and have a hard time imagining how wild it would be with hurricane-force winds whipping through the skyscrapers. If you have…
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My husband teaches introductory weather and climate at the University of Georgia. He likes to spice things up by including weather-related songs at the beginning of each class. This year he managed to put them all together in a Spotify playlist. Each of these was picked to match the topic for that day’s lecture. If…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center released their latest monthly and seasonal outlooks today. They show no strong signal in temperature in September but a tilt towards wetter than normal conditions in the northern parts of the region. For the fall months of September through November, all of the region except for Alabama is leaning towards warmer…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office has produced a Rapid Response post on TS Fred for their blog. It describes how wet it was before Fred came through and how the heavy rain from Fred contributed to massive flooding in western NC that has left 35 people missing. You can read the blog and see…